Telegram : Rome, to Dr. Baldwin, [1894 June 9?].

Part of a collection of letters from Henry James to Dr. William W. Baldwin between 1887 and 1900 (MA 8732.1-75). This collection is part of a much larger collection of letters to Dr. Baldwin from authors, English royalty and other luminaries of the period, including Samuel Clemens, William Dean Howells, Sarah Orne Jewett, Henry Cabot Lodge, Booth Tarkington, Edith Wharton and Constance Fenimore Woolson. See MA 3564 for more information on the complete Baldwin collection.
The date of the telegram is unclear but it is likely it was sent on June 9, 1894. James was writing to Baldwin from Rome in late May of 1894 discussing his hopes of getting to Florence for a few days. In his letter postmarked May 30, 1894 (MA 8732.42), James says he hopes to arrive "next week on some day yet to be designated" and in a letter postmarked June 4, 1894 (MA 8732.43) he says "...I hope to be with you by the end of the week." The date, written in ink on the telegram, appears to be June 9 which is a Saturday and thus, the day before James scheduled arrival in Florence which he says will be the following day, Sunday.